Polar Dream - Softcover
An autobiographical account of the then fifty-year-old author's solo, twenty-seven-day, 345-mile trek--on skis and with a husky named Charlie--to the North Pole and her confrontations with polar bears, ice floes, storms, and fear. 40,000 first printing. Tour.
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Everyone told her it couldn't be done...especially by a woman. But in 1988, fifty-year-old Helen Thayer, accompanied only by her black husky Charlie, became the first woman ever to ski solo to the North Pole. After overcoming her first obstacle--the unrelenting discouragement she received before setting out--she and Charlie braved brutal temperatures, violent storms, treacherous ice floes, marauding polar bears, and eventually, near starvation. Not only a remarkable adventure story, Polar Dream is also a testament to the intense bond of love and trust that develop between an adventurer and her dog. Whoever said the North Pole was no place for a woman, especially one without a whole team of sled dogs, didn't know Helen and Charlie.
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"A terrifying chronicle of an extraordinary endeavor."--Booklist
"An exciting story of human endurance and of a remarkable animal."--Publishers Weekly
"A terrifying chronicle of an extraordinary endeavor."--Booklist
"An exciting story of human endurance and of a remarkable animal."--Publishers Weekly
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- PublisherTime Warner Paperbacks
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 0751504777
- ISBN 13 9780751504774
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages254
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